I'll bet that the odds are less than 33 trillion to one that you could bribe someone who works for the synthetic DNA company to pilfer a sample for you.
Apple has surpassed Dell in Equity Market Capitalization, but not total market cap.
Dell has $600 million in debt, while Apple has none.
The total market cap is equity plus debt. Think of it this way - if you spend the 72 or so Billion on Dell, you still need to pay off an additional $600 million before you truly own the company. One alternative is to issue another $600 million in stock, and use the proceeds to buy back the debt.
I'm typing this on a 12" Apple PowerBook. Made in China. It's currently charging my 'Assembled in China' iPod. These would be tallied into the Chinese total, though they are clearly 'American' products and the bulk of their profits go to the (shareholders of the) American company.
While the advances in the Chinese IT industry are nothing less than phenomenal, I suspect that it will be at least a few decades before The States is knocked from the #1 position in IT.
In an oblique way, TFA says the same thing:
It is foreigners who have driven much of the growth, with heavy investment from global giants like Intel, Nokia, Motorola, Microsoft and Cisco Systems. Figures from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce show that companies that had received overseas investment accounted for almost 90 percent of 2004 exports of high technology products.
Oh yeah - and this OECD study only measures exports, not production. With Americans also leading the world in resource hoggery, American production may still lead Chinese production.
Before everyone jumps directly to the conclusion that SEOs are evil, let me tell you this. As the article states, there are 2 kinds of SEOs:
White hat SEOs, who help people redesign their websites to use robots.txt files, META tags, etc. Black hat SEOs, who spam the Web with thousands of links, and generally abuse the technology. Only the second kind is evil. Other SEOs out there actually do good things and truly make the Web a better place.
You omitted evil type the most evil type (to us non-linux folks) Red Hat SEO: the Red Hat Slashdot Evangilizing Overlord
President Bush is pleased to introduce the Protect Democracy Act which would ensure the death penalty and forfeiture of all assets for singing a song written in the past 500 years without written permission from the copyright holder.
Hey - if this can get them to stop singing 'God Bless America' at Cubs games, then I'm all for it.
benjamindees wrote: The world economy could *not* handle unlimited cheap energy. Just as it could not handle unlimited cheap food.... No more waiters, chefs, strip clubs, massages, nurses, plastic surgeons. Anything that couldn't be automated, or people wouldn't do for free, simply wouldn't get done.... Of course, I don't believe all of this to be true...
I don't claim to know what those in wealth and power believe, but this theory doesn't hold. In fact the opposite appears to be true.
Look back to the dawn of the industrial revolution - food and energy prices are essentially zero compared to then. It is only when the necessities of food, housing and energy become nearly free that labor exists to provide service to a significant upper class.
I can think of no better example than Bangkok. In Bangkok you can eat well for about $2 a day. You can eat enough to survive on about 25 a day. Nobody starves - Thailand might be the most fertile country on Earth, and food is plentiful. While energy isn't free here, it is subsidized and cheaper than most of the world.
But consider Bangkok's "unnecessary" services industry - waiters, chefs, massages, nurses, and plastic surgeons abound. However, there are no strip clubs here, as the Thais prefer take-out to eating in. Or rather, prefer take-out to just looking at the food.
Step 1: go to http://vista.com/page/5rr/About_Us.html Step 2: click on the mailto: bizdev@vista.com Step 3: ask where the link is to download Windows Vista Step 4: Profit for Vista, as they'll have prime evidence of market confusion
"Project Peabody" is really the code name for Sun's secret development of The Wayback Machine to send Scott McNealy back to a time when Sun was relevant.
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I always gave a fake name and 12346 Ventura BLVD, Studio City , CA 91604, which happened to be the address of the local RS.
Had I been clever, I would have used their CEO's name.
My credit card has been repeatedly comprimised while using Safari.
Most recently, a $300 charge appeared on my statement after visiting this page.
Michael Dell was asked what he would do if he were the CEO of Gateway:
"I'd butcher the cow and have a barbecque for the shareholders."
Flambe!!!
*Bananas Foster not included.
I'll bet that the odds are less than 33 trillion to one that you could bribe someone who works for the synthetic DNA company to pilfer a sample for you.
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Apple has surpassed Dell in Equity Market Capitalization, but not total market cap.
Dell has $600 million in debt, while Apple has none.
The total market cap is equity plus debt. Think of it this way - if you spend the 72 or so Billion on Dell, you still need to pay off an additional $600 million before you truly own the company. One alternative is to issue another $600 million in stock, and use the proceeds to buy back the debt.
How do I get my $699 back?
Overheard at a cafe in Stockholm:
Volvo Engineer: But your SUV is so dangerous - it has no crumple zones.
Chinese Car Salesman: Silly Swede. You Volvo my crumple zone.
I know most Slashdotters don't read the articles anyway, but how about a link for those of us that do? ;-)
Don't worry - it will all even out in the end: the dupe will have two links.
Finally the conservatives will have their Michael Moore.
Not quite. Thompson is a minimum of three award winning movies and four thousand doughnuts away from being another Moore.
I'm typing this on a 12" Apple PowerBook. Made in China. It's currently charging my 'Assembled in China' iPod. These would be tallied into the Chinese total, though they are clearly 'American' products and the bulk of their profits go to the (shareholders of the) American company.
While the advances in the Chinese IT industry are nothing less than phenomenal, I suspect that it will be at least a few decades before The States is knocked from the #1 position in IT.
In an oblique way, TFA says the same thing:
It is foreigners who have driven much of the growth, with heavy investment from global giants like Intel, Nokia, Motorola, Microsoft and Cisco Systems. Figures from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce show that companies that had received overseas investment accounted for almost 90 percent of 2004 exports of high technology products.
Oh yeah - and this OECD study only measures exports, not production. With Americans also leading the world in resource hoggery, American production may still lead Chinese production.
Before everyone jumps directly to the conclusion that SEOs are evil, let me tell you this. As the article states, there are 2 kinds of SEOs:
White hat SEOs, who help people redesign their websites to use robots.txt files, META tags, etc.
Black hat SEOs, who spam the Web with thousands of links, and generally abuse the technology.
Only the second kind is evil. Other SEOs out there actually do good things and truly make the Web a better place.
You omitted evil type the most evil type (to us non-linux folks)
Red Hat SEO: the Red Hat Slashdot Evangilizing Overlord
And I for one, do NOT...
From TFA:
Sending a bunch of male programmers advertisements for breast enlargement isn't terribly useful.
Are we talking pre-op or post-op implants here?
... that my only addiction is to Duke Nuke'em Forever.
And in tomorrow's news...
President Bush is pleased to introduce the Protect Democracy Act which would ensure the death penalty and forfeiture of all assets for singing a song written in the past 500 years without written permission from the copyright holder.
Hey - if this can get them to stop singing 'God Bless America' at Cubs games, then I'm all for it.
benjamindees wrote: ... ...
The world economy could *not* handle unlimited cheap energy. Just as it could not handle unlimited cheap food.
No more waiters, chefs, strip clubs, massages, nurses, plastic surgeons. Anything that couldn't be automated, or people wouldn't do for free, simply wouldn't get done.
Of course, I don't believe all of this to be true...
I don't claim to know what those in wealth and power believe, but this theory doesn't hold. In fact the opposite appears to be true.
Look back to the dawn of the industrial revolution - food and energy prices are essentially zero compared to then. It is only when the necessities of food, housing and energy become nearly free that labor exists to provide service to a significant upper class.
I can think of no better example than Bangkok. In Bangkok you can eat well for about $2 a day. You can eat enough to survive on about 25 a day. Nobody starves - Thailand might be the most fertile country on Earth, and food is plentiful. While energy isn't free here, it is subsidized and cheaper than most of the world.
But consider Bangkok's "unnecessary" services industry - waiters, chefs, massages, nurses, and plastic surgeons abound. However, there are no strip clubs here, as the Thais prefer take-out to eating in. Or rather, prefer take-out to just looking at the food.
What is it about Apple?
Does anyone out there think that 12,000 people would have shown up for four year old Dell or Gateway laptops?
There's a marketing / branding lesson in here some where.
... why I awoke to Purple Monkeys flying out of my butt.
And once NASA's sent a probe to Uranus, a few lucky scientists might just have the chance to hear those sounds.
Yeah - but only if said probe is immediately preceded by a finger pulling probe.
Step 1: go to http://vista.com/page/5rr/About_Us.html
Step 2: click on the mailto: bizdev@vista.com
Step 3: ask where the link is to download Windows Vista
Step 4: Profit for Vista, as they'll have prime evidence of market confusion
the audio anomoly immediately preceeding the quake was the sound of the pulling of a tectonic finger.
Get a WebTV email address and communicate via the comp.sys.unix USENET newsgroup.
I guarantee you that nobody will pay any attention to your communications.
send it encrypted either over port 80, or some randomization across ports, an have a large rolling bank if IP #'s through which traffic is routed.
Telecoms can counter, but it won't be as easy unless they want to slow down their subscriber's other services.
"Project Peabody" is really the code name for Sun's secret development of The Wayback Machine to send Scott McNealy back to a time when Sun was relevant.